Duau language

Duau
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Milne Bay Province
Native speakers	(3,600 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Nuclear Papuan Tip North Papuan Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux Dobu–Duau Duau; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Dawada; Guleguleu; Mwalukwasia; Siausi; Somwadina;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dva
Glottolog	duau1237[2]

Duau is a dialectically diverse Austronesian language spoken in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Duau Rural LLG.[3]

References

Duau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Duau". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.

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